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USSR: Measures of Economic Growth and Development, 1950-80

Central Intelligence Agency · 1982-12-08 · 399 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Joint Committee Print, dated December 8, 1982, gathers studies that the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence prepared for the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress. It gives estimates of Soviet gross national product for 1950 to 1980, with indexes of industrial production, agricultural production and consumption, and explains the methods and data behind them. The foreword says official Soviet statistics inflate growth and that the CIA measures offer a more accurate picture. The document contains no UFO material.

  • p. 18 …Power, United Nations International Comparisons Project, Phase I (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975) ICP…
  • p. 19 …Oleg 1-Ioeffding, Soviet National Income and Product in 1928, Columbia University Press, New York, 1954…
  • p. 21 …In theory, the Soviets " Basic Principles of the System of Balances of the National Economy, United…
  • p. 50 …Lawrence Grose, Real Output Measurement in the United States National Income and Product Accounts, US Department…
  • p. 166 …The subsidies on housing, recreation, and the press were allocated to the housing, recreation, and other…
  • p. 181 …Duke University Press, 1972), pp. 155-194; with Wade Robertson, “Industrial Production in the USSR," Soviet…
  • p. 183 …tons, square meters, units of production, or some other convention- al measure. Examples of this type…
  • p. 210 …For example, the production of commodities pub- lished in physical units includes intraplant turnover, but the…
  • p. 222 …bulbs Units Narkhoz Machine tools sector ml Meta? cutting machine tools Rubles Narkhoz Forge presses sector…
  • p. 249 …Hardt, eds., Soviet Economic Statistics, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1972 Treml and Hardt U…
  • p. 261 …Khrushchev stat- ed that “figures for average yield (of grain) which you read in the press…
  • p. 308 …central press. 8 Because the official data have again been made available to the United States…
  • p. 320 …Power, United Nations International Comparisons Project, Phase I (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975) ICP…
  • p. 321 …2 For details, see United Nations, Comparisons ofthe System of National Accounts and the System of…
  • p. 328 …Judging from a mass of anecdotal evidence from the Soviet press concerning the poor quality of…
  • p. 342 …Although the average size of a dwelling unit increased between 1950 and 1978-by 17 percent…
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List of Standard Citations
Full Citation Abbreviated Citation
USSR Central Statistical Administration, Statistical Handbooks
Narodnoye khozyaystvo SSSR v I9— godu (National Economy of the USSR in l9—) Narkhoz 19-
Se! 'skoye khozyaystvo SSSR, 1960 (Agriculture USSR) Selkhoz I 960
Sel’skoye khozyaystvo SSSR, 1971 (Agriculture USSR) Selkhoz I 971
Sovetskaya torgovlya, 1964 (Soviet Trade) Sov torg I964
Gosudarstvennyy byudzhet SSSR i byudzhety soyuznykh respublik (State Budget of the
USSR and Budgets of the Union Republics)
1961-65
1966-70
1971-75
Gosbyudzhet, I 966
Gosbyudzhet, I972
Gosbyudzhet, I 976
Soviet Periodicals
Voprosy ekonomiki (Problems of Economics) Vop ek
Vestnik statistiki (Herald of Statistics) Vest stat
Ekonomika i organizatsiya promyshlennogo proizvodstva (Economics and Organization of
Industrial Production)
EKO
E konomicheskaya gazeta (Economic Gazette) Ekon gaz
US Government Publications
CIA, USSR: Gross National Product Accounts, I970, A (ER) 75-76, November 1975
CIA, The Soviet Grain Balance, 1960-73, A (ER) 75-68, September 1975
QIA, A Comparison of Consumption in the USSR and the US, January 1964
CIA, GNP I 970
A (ER) 75-68
CIA, A Comparison— 1964
Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States,
An Index of Industrial Production in the USSR, 1982
An Index of Agricultural Production in the USSR, 1982
An Index of Consumption in the USSR, 1982
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Gross National Product of the USSR: An International Comparison, 1982
Soviet Economic Prospectsfor the Seventies, June 1973
Soviet Economy in a New Perspective, October 1976
Soviet Economy in a Time of Change, October 1979
J EC, Industry
J EC, Agriculture
J EC , Consumption
J EC, Consumption Comparison
J EC, GNP Comparison
JEC, I973
JEC, I976
JEC, 1979
Other Publications
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1975)
ICP, Phase I
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(Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978)
ICP, Phase II
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Press, 1969)
Becker, 1969
Abram Bergson, The Real National Income of Soviet Russia Since I 928 (Cambridge, Mass.,
Harvard University Press, 1961)
Bergson, 1961
Abram Bergson, Productivity and the Social System: The USSR and the West (Cambridge,
Mass., Harvard University Press, 1978)
Bergson, 1978
Vladimir G. Treml and John P. Hardt, eds., Soviet Economic Statistics
(Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1972)
Treml and Hardt
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